Show Jeiv Sliver Bridge Dears Completion Best Of Valley Nearing completion Is a Improvement In Gunnison the replacement of the bridge crossing the Sevier River west of Centerfleld and serving the resident and ranchers on the west bench Valley Eugene Jensen Sanpete County Commissioner stated the project was a joint effort of Sanpete County in cooperation with funds available from the Federal Government The project cost is $3107515 with the county paying 25 percent and the Federal Government 75 percent The road is a county secondary highway making It eligible for the federal funds from the Utah Ted Christensen of Highways State Department Mr was the project engineer Christensen stated the base of the bridge consists of eight Mrs A record turnout of voters is expected at the polls November 5th with Interest running at high and many major offices at stake The individual will be faced with one of the largest ballots In history with five parties offering candidates One of the for major offices the Peace and Freedom five does not offer a candidate for president but has Corky Gonzales for vice president and Bruce D Phillips for United States Senator The American Independent party offers George C Wallace for President and Curtis E for vice president while the Socialist Workers Party has Fred Halstead for President and Paul Boutelle for vice president Democrats and Republicans offer a full slate being the most prominent among the five entered concrete piles Eight concrete beamswill be placed the on the piles to complete bridge They are 76 feet In length with the complete Only caulking is finish the bridge once the beams are placed Franklin Knowlton Company of Layton Is the contractor for the 'improvement which started August 15th The job was to be completed in 60 working days but was delayed due to a wait necessary for the concrete beams Sanpete County will straighten grade and surface the approaches to the bridge from both the east and west stated Mr Jensen The new structure replaces an old wooden bridge that has been in use for many years It was In poor condition and fast Also the apunsafe becoming proaches were on a sharp curve making driving hazardous Commissioner Jensen also) stated plans were In the making! to widen and Improve the bridge) crossing the river west of Gunnison and Seventieth - NEW BRIDGE Two large cranes are shown installing 76 concrete beam on new Sevier River foot All eight beams were placed October Bridge west of Centerfleld 24th forming the roadbed Cemetery was born NoMr Christensen vember 4 1892 In Mayfield the son of Hyrum and Inger Marla Gregerson Christensen He grew to manhood in that community November 12 1912 he married In the Anderson Eva Johanna She died July 29 Manti Temple 1941 February 14 1944 he married Nettle Capps In Elko Ne- Year Gunnison for District Attorney but Vance Aagard Is seeking reelectlon state representative and Jensen is asking the voters to return him to the county term commission for a Keith R Jorgensen is the GOP office seeker for a county commissioner Carrying tho banner for President on the Republican ticket is Nixon with Spiro T Richard Agnew his running mate for vice president Wallace F Bennett as US is seeking Senator and Laurence J Burton is again seeking the US Representative post for District No 1 Carl W Buehner Is the GOP candidate for governor with F Toronto the candidate for secretary of state Vernon B Romney is seeking the office of Attorney General with Sherman J Preece the candidate for state auditor and Golden L Allen state treasurer The Republicans didate to oppose have no canMr Bunnell Sanpete County - "THEaUGAR BEET estimated enthusiasts 80000 upland are expected to be lands pheasant surrounding awaiting the 8:00 am opening this Saturday November 2 as the most popular of the game bird seasons begin Pheasant seasons will be from five to days depending on the area as listed in the upland bird proclamation of the hunts will be Shortest in Salt Lake and Utah counties which are open for five days A y season is set for Beaver Carbon Emery Iron Garfield Grand Juab Kane Millard Piute San Juan Sanpete Sevier Tooele Wasatch and Wayne coun- ties Avid pheasant hunters will have sixteen days to pursue the In Box Elder Cache Daggett Davis Duchesne Morgan Rich Summit Uintah Washington and Weber counties State and Federal lands will be 2 to 24 open from November for twenty three days along with lands which have been other open by putting up signs state: "Open to Pheasant Hunting" or "Open to Pheasant vada Hunting by Permission" Mr Christensen was a rancher Bag and possession limits are in the Talmage area unchanged this year Hunters may take three cocks per day and have Survivors Include his widow six in possession after two days sons and daughters Jess Chris- of shooting tensen Mrs Calvin (Lorna)Jen-se- n Shooting hours are different Paul Christensen and Zane this year except for the 8:00 am Christensen all Talmage Miles time for the opening day After Christensen Boneta Duchesne the first morning shooting hours Dee Christensen Lanare listed as daylight hours durCounty der Wyoming Mrs John (Eva ing the balance of the season Riverton Utah’s quail season also opens 54 Jane) Rowley 2 and will continue 38 November grandchildren brothers and sisters till December 1 statewide except Leland J Christensen Provo Washington County which will be Mrs Gladys Sorensen and Mrs open through January 5 1969 Edra Vest Mayfield MrsLuella Shooting hours are the same Bean Seattle Washington Mrs as for pheasants and the bag and Laura Bradfleld Lynndyl Mrs possession limits are 8 and 16 Eva Dutson Leamington respectively posted which tray lifile hen! Students Should Apply low For Gov Summer Job All persons interested in sumwith the opportunities next year government should apply now to receive maxiSen Wallace mum consideration Theron Pickett Dies said today F Bennett "All federal summer jobs will be filled on a merit basis However those applying earllestwill Funeral services were held get top priority" Sen Bennett said "Applicants must be at least at 1 pm October 26th in the 18 years old or at least 16 with Gunnison First WardLDSchapel a high school diploma” he added honoring the life of a prominent native son Theron Pickett Mr "Jobs requiring eligibility Pickett 75 died at 4:50 am through the Summer Employment October 23 In the Gunnison VaUey Examination include seasonal assistants with the Post Office De- Hospital after a long illness He ten days had been hospitalized other common and jobs partment Mr Pickett was born February to most federal agencies such as typists stenographers clerks 18 1893 in Gunnison the son of and engineering and science John Jeremiah and Lurany Iness He attended the Roper Pickett aids" he added Sen Bennett noted there are local schools and had resided here his entire life As a boy four testing dates for applicants Persons applying by Nov will be he helped haul rocks to build the old bank building tested December 7 those applyDecember 8 1915 he married ing by Dec 6 will be tested on January 11 those applying by Martha Vincent in the Manti She died September 22 3 will be tested on FebTemple January ruary 8 and those applying on 1961 Mr Pickett was a farmer and January 30 — final date for suband will be dairyman and prominent applications— mitting active in church dries He was a tested on March 30 "Interested persons may be High Priest and had served as of the Sunday tested at any of 15 cities in superintendent School He also served as a leader Utah They include Beaver Cedar Scouts and held various in Delta Boy City Dugway Logan Moab Ogden Pangultch Price other offices of leadership and Provo Richfield St George Salt trust He served two years In the Lake City Tooele and Vernal" Central States Mission Survivors include three sons: the Utahn said John Royden Pickett Salt Lake Sen Bennett said complete inT Pickett and formation and Civil Service City Standley Commission are Mark V Pickett both Gunnison applications 8 one brother at college placement available grandchildren Merrill Pickett serving an LDS offices CSC Offices and most and four mission in Arizona post offices sisters Mrs Andrew (Iness)Mo-dee- n Mrs Martin (Luarlna) Wlllardson and Mrs Rufus (Henrietta) Frandsen all Gunnison and Mrs Vincent (Ruth) Ross mer job federal j Sessions No 2 Legislative for Legislators Compensation Tax No 4 No 3 Inventory Assessment of Agricultural Land No 5 Mandatory Retirement of Judges They will also vote for or against Liquor Initiative Petition No A 1 Region 7 C Dewey Lund of Centerfleld for South 'Sanpete Premember School District cinct 4 and CE Andersen of Gunnison Is the only candidate for school board member from A busy day at the polls for all and with the various counting chores It Is not anticipated the election judges will complete their job of tallying the results until well into the wee voters morning hours Microfilming 84101 Ave AND TURKEY Utah 84634 October Thursday 31 1968 No 25 Valley Native Victim Of Construction School Halloween Carnival Tonight The Gunnison Valley ElemenSchool Halloween Carnival will be held October 31 Everything is in order for a good time for all A free movie "The Yellowstone Cubs" will be shown with the first showing at 5:30 and the second showing at 7:15 Recake freshments concessions etc will walk fishing ponds begin at 6:00 Mrs Lynn Sorensto and her committee encourage all to come ave a time with ou tary Dean L Baxter 47 a native of Gunnison and residing in Lehl was the victim of a fatal accident at 10:50 am October 23rd in West Jordan Mr Baxter a construction worker for the Superior Construction Company of Murray was installing pipe In a trench The large backhoe on a tractor being used to move the pipe contacted a hot electrical wire Mr Baxter had a hold on the pipe at the same time as the wire He was still breathing touched minutes after the accident but resuscitation failed to revive him Dean Lowell Baxter was born March 17 1921 in Gunnison the son of Lowell and Nina Jensen He attended the local Baxter and was a veteran of schools W"WWM U serving four years with the 8th US Army Air Force three years in England He was a member of the LDS Church July 15 1944 he married Olive J Stapleton in Lldlington England Include his widow Survivors The Literary "12 met October and three sons Rex Dean 23rd at the home of Mrs Frank Eleven members and Cameron' Lee and Patrick John Bradley two guests were present Mr and Baxter all of Lehl brothers and Lawrence Mrs Jensen told of sisters Mrs Wendell (Elaine) Fork Mrs New Zealand and showed pictures Taylor Spanish and articles of the country where Bulah Pierce Lindon Mrs Vernon (Donna) Draper Mt Pleaan LDS Mission they served sant Lloyd Baxter Lancaster D&nGl'J Freight Train Derailed the clearing of & Rio City supervised Nine empty Denver Grande Western Railroad freight the site using a heavy duty crane cars and two loaded with plaster from the W W Clyde Construcand paper rolls were derailed in tion Company in Sallna Canyon and onafrom Jensen Construction a mishap about 12:30 am October 23rd There were no per- Company working on the Sallna sonal injuries to any of the crew auction and large bulldozers provided by Marwood Hales of Redmembers The accident occurred just east mond of the Airport Mr Davis stated the train was between Axtell and Redmond E Davis Richard railroad southbound on a regular run at The from Salt Lake the time of the accident superintendent Mishap California Odell Baxter Tooele Marvin Baxter and Leland Bax-- 1 ter Centerfleld and LeRoy Baxter Manti Funeral services were held October 26 in the Wing Mortuary Chapel in Lehl Speakers included Clark Nelson and William Powell Songs were "Beyond The Sunset "In The Garden" and "Abide With Me" Burial was in the Centerfleld with final graveside Cemetery rites by the American Legion The dedicatory prayer was offered by Marlel Hansen Near Airport the rails to a regular empty cars were the type used to travel haul sugarbeets and they were repair point Cause of the accident was bescheduled to be placed on the railIn the road sidings for the regular beet lieved a broken angle bar of the run to West Jordan The two track that allowed the end loose to come rail loaded cars were for the plants In Sigurd The track was cleared at 5:30 and the cars Wednesday Several of the cars were placed on a side track at Axtell to undergo emergency repairs in order that they could pm all Damage was estimated at about $10000 according to Joe Westbrook This included the cost of repairing the track and trestle righting the cars and repairing them Ephraim Bishop Ifater Jack Peterson prominent valwere deer hunting west of the ley plumbing contractor and canal on the west bench They sportsman was transferred to were sitting in Mr Peterson’s the Utah Valley Hospital In Provo truck about 6:45 am with the 29th following emerOctober truck headlights on when the gency treatment for a gunshot bullet struck It was reportedly wound at tli Gunnison Valley fired from about 100 yards disHospital suffered early the same tance and struck the hood of the truck and richocheted into the morning Mr Peterson suffered injury windshield on the driver’s side to his left eye from lead frag- where Mr Peterson was sitting ments He also had lead frag- The windshield was shattered and ments around the right eye about the lead fragments struck Mr his face and one hand Peterson in the face and hand The mishap occurred when Mr The truck was stopped at the Peterson and Dee Wlllardson time Burglars broke Into the Tip Top Club sometime early the morning of October 25th ransacking the place and taking various merto Sanpete chandise according County Sheriff Grant Larsen The j robbery was discovered when the owner Mrs Alice Smith opened the business in the morning Entrance was gained by breaking the lock on the front door Taken was a keg of beer radio belonging to DeVon Larsen cigarettes boxed candy money in a jar used for candy sales and gum Also broken Into and the money taken was the pin ball machines A Jar of money on the counter that was to be turned to the Baxter family was not touched The Inside of the building was a general mess with the burglars ransacking the room and throwing etc on the floor merchandise Assisting the Sheriff in the inwas the sheriffs depvestigation Patrolman uty Paul Christenson Paul Mangelsen and Gunnison Marshall Kennard Anderson MORE VOTING is Hummers Gtingiraeck 5 Voters will also cast ballots for five propositions for changes in the Utah Constitution Voting for or against the Individual will cast a ballot on Proposition No Sanpete Voters will alsochoose between Sheldon S Allred and Clair Erickson for Utah State Board of Education member from Corp 141 Pierpont Burglars Succumbs To Precinct W as REPUBLICANS Theron Pickett Long Illness bird the Talmage and Keith S Hansen county commissioner GUNNISON An chapel burial in sioner the race DEMOCRATS For president the Democrats will be represented by Hubert' H Humphrey with Edmund S Muskie for vice president Milton L Wellenmann is the candidate for US Senator and Richard J Maughan for U S Representative in Congress District One Calvin L Rampton Is carrying the Democratic banner for as governor with Clyde L Miller seeking a second term as secretary of state John Preston Creer is the candidate for in the office attorney general that has been held by Phil Hansen Linn C Baker is the state auditor candidate Sharp M Larsen state treasurer Boyd Bunnell District Attorney No 7 Evart J Jensen state representative Woodrow W Beck county commis- - Mins® come Christensen Marlon Hyrum died 75 a native of Mayfield October 23rd In a Salt Lake City hospital of natural causes Funeral services were held October 26 in the Moon Lake LDS Ward Home with Mountain in Universal bridge surface necessary to Mayfield dative M Christensen Dies Oct 23 Trek To Polls November Wlllardson rushed his incompanion to the hospital he was given emergency treatment and later in the day transferred to Provo for specialized treatment of the eye At the time of the accident Mr Wlllardson stated they could not see any deer to cause the Mr jured where firing Sheriff Grant Larsen was notified and was investigating the and questioning shooting the hunters that were nearby at the time V Darrell Warren directed the funeral services honoring the life of Mr Pickett They were: prayer at the home and LaVoy Sorenson prelude music Kae Pickett postlude vocal solo "These Hands" Boyd Goble accompanied by Mrs S Goble invocation Charles Hansen remarks Bishop Warren speaker Lawrence Jensen vocal duet Mrs Junior Bown accomand Keller Christenson panied by Mrs Christenson "Count Your Many Blessings" speaker President LaMar H Stewart speaker Woodrow Beck vocal solo Boyd Goble "The Lord’s Prayer" accompanied by Mrs Goble benediction J LaMar Larson ' Burial was in the Gunnison Cemetery directed by the Warren R Jensen Funeral Home The final resting place was dedicated by Standley Pickett st1 - Eleven freight cars were derailed on the TRAIN WRECK Denver L Rio Grande tracks in an accident October 22nd Just east of the airport between Axtell and Redmond Picture wash shows the lead with the following v crosses a car off the trestle that car off both sidos the track large |